From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 3 9:19:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78C637B401 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:19:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C5D43EA9 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:19:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: from user-0cev12d.cable.mindspring.com ([24.239.132.77] helo=bluerondo.a.la.turk) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18UVU2-0002j9-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:19:46 -0800 Received: (qmail 1416 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Jan 2003 17:19:43 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:19:43 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Randall Hamilton Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re:Fish ? Who mentioned Fish ? Message-ID: <20030103171943.GA1380@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <009201c2b315$29d0cc70$0301a8c0@nitedog> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Randall Hamilton wrote: > > It's a well-defined subset, too. It can be described with a single > > word: > > > > politicians > > funny you should mention that. last i heard, most contries have politicians > in one form or another. Perhaps there's another category he's talking about: people like you. You're the exact reason many people who don't know better hate Americans: they've met only examples like you. I happen to know better only because I've met many admirable, well-informed, globally-minded Americans, but sometimes I wonder whether those people are really the exceptions, and people like you are really the rule. (I'm living in the US at present, in one of the more progressive and cosmopolitan cities). > maybe he would point out that we are all evil...that our murder rate is high > compared to other contries, or that our rape quota is too high.. > all while comparing it to a country with less people then just one US state. Perhaps you can look at some figures before spouting off. Population of European Union in 2000 (15 member countries, which are comparable in area to US states): 377 million Population of US (50 states) in 2002: around 280 million Even the population of tiny Netherlands (17 million) is much more than the avg population per state of the US. I saw an article in a mainstream US newspaper not long ago, which argued, apparently seriously, that Europeans are more worried about global warming than the US because if water levels rise, there's plenty of room inland for coastal Americans to move in, but there's no more room inland in Europe. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message